Catalog
1⁄13 Shilling - Victoria
| Issuer | States of Jersey |
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| Year | 1866-1871 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | STATES OF JERSEY. ONE THIRTEENTH OF A SHILLING. |
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Jersey's fractional shilling coinage was denominated to align with the island's customary system of 13 sous to the shilling — a local convention rooted in the *livre tournois* that had persisted long after mainland France abandoned it. Britain never fully rationalized Jersey's currency to match sterling decimal logic, and these odd fractions were the practical result.
KM#5 was struck at the Royal Mint during a period when Jersey's coinage contracts were renegotiated following complaints about the quality of earlier issues.